Medibuntu shouldn't distribute software against their license
Bug #203214 reported by
Christoph Langner
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Medibuntu |
Invalid
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Critical
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Inside the medibuntu repos you offer packages which violate most likely the distribution policy of these products. E.g.
Adobe Reader:
http://
Skype:
http://
In those cases both companies offer packages for various Linux distributions. The Ubuntu packages they offer. work nice for uptodate Ubuntus. So why don't you respect those licenses?
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To put in a nutshell, because that's the purpose of Medibuntu (like debian-multimedia for debian or plf for mandriva for example).
Some technical thoughts: architecture) .
* The packages provided by Adobe suck (wrong naming, wrong section, missing dependencies, wrong installation directory... obviously the packager hasn't read the Debian Policy yet).
* Skype provides a better package for Ubuntu, except that it seems to be built on/for debian stable, and the binary compatibility isn't assured between Debian and Ubuntu. Moreover, they don't provide an amd64 package (users have to call some ugly things like dpkg --force-
Anyway, these packages (with Google Earth), aren't the easiest to maintain, and we'd be happy if Canonical provided them in their commercial repository (it's its purpose also), so we could drop them. But until this (or until the companies provide good packages), we keep them.